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Sakshee Malikkh slams BJP for choosing Karan, son of former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Shahran Singh, as rakyat from Kaiserganj seat in Uttar Pradesh candidates in the House of Commons polls. (Press Trust photo)
Top wrestlers including Sakshi, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat accuse Brij Bhushan of sexually harassing female wrestlers during his tenure as WFI president
Sakshee Malikkh on Thursday slammed the BJP for choosing Karan, son of former Women’s Federation chief Brij Bhushan Shahran Singh, as UP candidate candidate for the Lok Sabha polls from the state Kaiserganj seat, terming the decision a defeat for the daughters of the country.
Top wrestlers such as Sakshee, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat accused Brij Bhushan of sexually harassing female wrestlers during his tenure as Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president and sat at Jantar Mantar for months demanding his arrest.
The son of Brij Bhushan, the sitting MP from Kaiserganj, has now been given a seat by the Bharatiya Janata Party, angering the protesting wrestlers.
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“We all put our careers at risk and slept on the streets for many days in the sun and rain. To date, Brij Bhushan has not been arrested. We are not asking for anything, we are just asking for justice.
“Give up the arrest and give his son a ticket today. You have destroyed the morale of tens of millions of daughters of this country. If a ticket is only issued to one family, is the national government so weak in front of one person? It is only necessary to vote in the name of Lord Shri Ram, so what about the path shown by him? she asked.
During the nearly year-long protests last year, Sakshee, Bajrang and Vinesh demanded that no relative or close aide of Brij Bhushan be allowed to contest the WFI elections.
However, Sanjay Singh, a close aide of the BJP leader, was unanimously elected as the new WFI president in December, leading Sakshi to hastily organize a press conference hours after the election results were announced to announce his withdrawal from the organization. sport. Neither Bajrang nor Vinesh himself wrote anything on X but retweeted a few comments criticizing the BJP’s move.
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